Redditor Ventachinkway caught a photo of a homeless man conducting a clever exercise in behavioral economics disguised as an inquiry into the levels of spontaneous generosity as determined by religious creed or lack thereof.

When I passed him he proudly announced "The atheists are winning!" (i.imgur.com) (via Glinner)

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:Much as I dislike religion in general, the redditor atheists are possibly the biggest group of self-flagellating tools out there. There's a reason the term "circle-jerking" is so popular on reddit.

-TG

Haha. A good friend of mine is a redditor, and he refers to that group as the "Neckbeard atheists." What that means is a little beyond me, I guess. I've never been on the circles of Reddit.

Redditor Ventachinkway caught a photo of a homeless man conducting a clever exercise in behavioral economics disguised as an inquiry into the levels of spontaneous generosity as determined by religious creed or lack thereof.

When I passed him he proudly announced "The atheists are winning!" (i.imgur.com) (via Glinner)

My first thought is that the homeless man is crafty and creative, and he put A BIT OF HIS OWN MONEY (or maybe shifts money from the religious pots) in the "atheist pot", thinking that the religous folks might be the easiest to spur to "give more" that way. Maybe I'm too cynical, but that's how I initially see it.

And yes, the atheist forum on Reddit is absolutely full of self-flaggelating hostile-to-religion douchebags. It's sad because they act exactly like they like to complain about religious folks acting toward them.

...I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

It's obvious, isn't it? Though no quite a circle, the loop design is reminiscent of the endless cycle of samsara. The spring loaded portion of the carabiner represents the Buddha's teaching, which 'spring you' out of the endless cycle.